Misgiving Tree/Transcript

[theme song playing]

[typing]

[printer whirring]

Jessica: [giving out her prints to other students] Well, it looks like people are finally starting to read my "EnviroBeat" column. What?

Babs: [slurp]

Zee: Oh, Jess, sorry, but your column might just be a... lost cause.

Jessica: [grunts] There's no such thing as a lost cause! That's literally the name of my latest article. You could have at least recycled, you animals! Huh?

Boy: [sinister laughing]

Jessica: Don't you dare!

Boy: [grunt] [throws it at Pam] [laughing]

Jessica: [growl]

Boy: [gasp] Ugh.

Babs: [slurping up noodles]

Jessica: That poor girl. No one to eat lunch with, no one to talk to...No friends, at all!

Babs: [slurp] Oh, Jess! Poor unobservant, unperceptive Jess. Don't you see her hair carefully placed to hide the face? The downward direction of the gaze. The oversized baggy clothes, that tuck her away from society. [chuckle] It doesn't take a super sleuth like me to figure out Pam Isley doesn't want friends.

Jessica: Nonsense! Everyone wants friends. Pam just hasn't met the right one...

Zee: Oh, no, Jess, please don't.

Jessica: ...yet.

Kara: Dude. Seriously, leave it alone. Pam Isley's a lost cause.

Jessica: There's no such thing as a lost cause.

[all groan]

Pam: [inspecting sandwich] [sniffing bread] [gasp at lettuce] [whimpering] [sobbing] [sniffle] [chomps on meat]

Jessica: Hi! So, is this your plant?

Pam: This is Phil. He complains if I leave him home alone with the rhododendrons.

Jessica: Oh! How fascinating! I have a peace lily at home who wilts when I forget to water him.

Pam: Do you mind? Phil and I would rather eat our lunch alone. Photosynthesis is most optimal in silence.

Jessica: Oh! [chuckle] I know how that is. Silence is so silency. I love silence.

Pam: Come on, Phil. There's more sunlight out in the quad.

Jessica: Bye! See you around school, friend. That went well.

[in Science class] [fizz]

Jessica: Oh, hey! What are the odds we'd end up as lab partners, huh?

Pam: I have an agreement with the teacher that I don't do lab partners.

Jessica: Come on! It'll be such a blast! [coughing]

Pam: [opens locker] [reading note] "Roses are red. Violets are blue. I would really like to be best friends with you." Ugh!

Jessica: [scream] Hi, Pam!

Pam: [shriek] Violets are not blue! That is an unfounded stereotype!

[in girls bathroom]

Jessica: [gasp] I love your shoes! Are the soles sustainable rubber?

Pam: [runs away] [grunt]

[Outside; PE Class]

Pam : [jogging] [panting]

Jessica: Hey! You wanna...

Pam: [panting and running faster]

Jessica: ...come help with the community garden this weekend?

Pam: [scream in frustration] Leave me alone!

Jessica: It'll be fun! It's all organic!

Kara: This has gone on long enough, right?

[Jessica walks in classroom]

Jessica: Hi, I'm here to help with the... [sees other superhero girls] orphaned puppies?

Zee: Jess, we need to talk.

Jessica: Where are the puppies?

Diana: The puppies were a clever ruse - Kind Jessica, it may not be apparent to you, but, Pamela is not exhibiting signs of receptiveness to your amicable advances.

Jessica: What do you mean? We've been chatting all day. We're becoming quite close, actually.

Zee: [yell] Jessica! Wake up and smell reality! She's just not that into you.

Jessica: [opens door opens and shuts]

Babs: That went well.

Jessica: Please, please, just take one, please! An ancient tree is about to be destroyed. Knocked down for another LexBucks coffee house! [sigh] Allow me. [sigh]

[paper rustling]

Pam: Is this true? It says you're going down there to try and save the tree.

Jessica: Yup. It probably doesn't matter but I am.

Pam: Can I come?

Jessica: [excitedly] Yes, yes! Oh, my gosh! Yes! I mean, cool. Yeah.

Pam: So, what's the plan?

Jessica: The plan?

[Jessica and Pam tied on the tree]

Jessica: One, two, three! We love trees! One, two, three! We love trees! One, two, three! We love trees!

[sign saying tomorrow 5am, the tree's destruction]

Pam: Tomorrow?

Jessca: We shall not! We shall not be moved! We shall not! We shall not be moved! ♪ Just like the tree That stands ♪ ♪ Where the LexBucks Is now planned ♪ ♪ We shall not be moved ♪

Pam: [groan]

[at night]

Jessica: ♪ For the land of the tree ♪ ♪ And the home of the... ♪

Pam: All right! All right! Stop!

Jessica: I'm sorry, Pam. I know I got the day wrong but we're still going to--

Pam: Shh! Do you hear that?

[chiming]

Pam: I've been waiting all night, and now, he finally speaks.

Jessica: Um, who?

Pam: Him. He wants to tell his story.

Jessica: Oh, uh, well, that's interesting.

[wind blowing gently]

Pam: He came here, no more than a humble seed... Carried from across the land by a sparrow.

[sparrow chirps]

Pam: The soil welcomed him. [voiceover] He was only a sapling in those days. He never dreamed he'd grow as big as the others. But he did. He cared for his neighbors...

[squirrels chitter]

[birds chirping]

Pam: Providing them homes and nourishment. Centuries passed...

[rumbling]

Pam: He grew as wise as he was magnificent, until one day, he became the king of the forest.

Jessica: Wow! Pam, that was beautiful.

[wind blowing]

[magical chiming]

Pam: And then, the monsters came. [voiceover] They drove off the animals. They murdered all the king's subjects.

[blades swinging]

Pam: [voiceover] They ripped up the earth. Buried it under concrete. They destroyed every last remnant of his kingdom... Leaving him eternally... alone! All he wanted was to protect his forest.[voiceover] Now, he's the one who needs protection.

[engines revving]

Jessica: [gasp] Oh, no.

Construction Workers: [unleashing cutting tools]

Jessica: Hang on, Pam! This is the moment we've been waiting for!

[rumbling]

Jessica: [gasp]

Men: Whoa!

[rumbling] [plants wrecking things

Jessica: Pam, get out of here! [transformation]

Green Lantern: [sigh] [grunt] Oh! [grunt] [gasp] Poison Ivy, what are you doing here?

Poison Ivy: Reminding these people of their place in the world!

[ men all yelling]

Poison Ivy: I don't know where you came from, but, stay out of this.

Greeb Lantern: [grunt]

[indistinct shouting]

[ Green Lantern saw whirring]

Poison Ivy: [grunt]

Green Lantern: [grunt]

[machine whirring]

Green Lantern: I won't let you hurt them, Ivy.

Poison Ivy: We'll see about that!

[men yelling]

Green Lantern: [grunt]

Poison Ivy: Oh, having trouble keeping up? Let's just finish this. Shall we?

Green Lantern: [ring shovel] [yell]

Poison Ivy: [screaming] NOOOOO!!!!!

Green Lantern: Quick! Run!

[branches cracking]

Green Lantern: You could have KILLED those people!

Poison Ivy: [tearing up] You killed this TREE!

Green Lantern: [gasp] I-- I didn't mean to.

[branches creaking]

Poison Ivy: You're unworthy of the color of life, Green Lantern, and one of these days, you will pay.

[chainsaw whirring]

[engine roaring]

Pam: Three hundred years he reigned.

[sad music playing]

[next day]

Pam: And they just didn't care. People are a lost cause.

Jessica: There's no such thing as a lost cause. Pammy, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Pam: Don't push it.

[theme music playing]